Earth, center of the universe

Of the obscurantism practiced by the ancient shamans and priests in their ancestral rites of superstition, sometimes mixed with the light of the careful and…

ASTRONOMY IN ANCIENT EGYPT

Finally, and as a further reflection of the influence they attributed to celestial events on their daily life and on its journey after death, it…

Introduction

This is a magic and dream book. The celestial observation began as an attempt to find out the design of the gods, to interpret their…

Galileo

Galileo was born in Pisa in 1564 (the year Michelangelo died) and died in Arcetri in 1642 (the year Newton was born). Dedse 1597 he…

Tycho Brahe

Tycho Brahe (1546 – 1601) after studying at various European universities, returned to Denmark, his homeland, where he was appointed Astronomer Royal. Thanks to the…

Copernican innovation

“The very famous and very learned Nicolaus Copernicus, incomparable astronomer” was canon of Warmia – a province governed by his uncle and tutor, Bishop Luis…

Pre-Copernican theories

The Universe of the two spheres One of the first and simplest astronomical theories is the Universe of the two spheres. Since the IV century…

Astronomy in Mesopotamia

One of the regions of the planet that benefited from the end of the ice age was Mesopotamia. In fact, this area of ​​the planet…

Prehistoric Astronomy

Paleolithic Astronomy From the deepest antiquity, man has gazed at the heavens and marveled at their appearance. We cannot imagine what were the explanations that…